Causes Photo by Karl Hörnfeldt on Unsplash E.P.A. to tighten limits on mercury and other pollutants from power plants A new rule would reduce mercury, arsenic, nickel and lead emissions, which the Biden administration said would protect public health.
www.flickr.com Alarming levels of mercury are found in old growth Amazon forest The findings, related to gold mining in Peru, provide new evidence of how people are altering ecosystems in dangerous ways around the world.
Solutions www.nytimes.com Dominique Browning: Don’t celebrate Earth Day. Fight for it The 1970 gathering ushered in significant achievements in protecting our environment. Now Trump is destroying them.
Politics www.nytimes.com The EPA is weakening controls on mercury. Other rules will fall, too. The agency will change the way the benefits of mercury controls are calculated, a move that would effectively loosen the rules on other toxic pollutants.
Politics www.nytimes.com Dominique Browning: This coal lobbyist should not run the E.P.A. Andrew Wheeler has demonstrated over and over again why he should not be entrusted with protecting us from harm.
Causes www.nytimes.com New E.P.A. plan could free coal plants to release more mercury into the air The proposal could set a precedent reaching far beyond mercury rules and would represent a victory for the coal industry.
Causes www.nytimes.com New E.P.A. plan could free coal plants to release more mercury into the air The proposal could set a precedent reaching far beyond mercury rules and would represent a victory for the coal industry.
